Why does Magento ping it’s own local.xml file?

Magento has several configuration files – one of the most important local.xml, which contains all of your configuration details. Your database connection, caching connection details, where to store sessions – this is all contained within this file.

If you’ve been running an online store for a while now, you might have noticed something like the following in your error_log

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Warning: Use of undefined constant AUTH_KEY - assumed 'AUTH_KEY' (this will throw an Error in a future version of PHP) in /nfs/c11/h03/mnt/200050/domains/douglasradburn.co.uk/html/wp-content/plugins/stop-spam-comments/stop-spam.php on line 104

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Warning: Use of undefined constant AUTH_KEY - assumed 'AUTH_KEY' (this will throw an Error in a future version of PHP) in /nfs/c11/h03/mnt/200050/domains/douglasradburn.co.uk/html/wp-content/plugins/stop-spam-comments/stop-spam.php on line 104

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